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For yoga to overcome the apparent conflicts between theory and practice, it must provide a theoretical explanation that neither modern science nor ancient Samkhya offers. It must explain how the yoga practitioner can traverse the intricate landscape of the mind and come to know God without relying on empirical perception. Yoga, Prashant contends, more successfully narrows the gap between theory and practice because it relies not on empirical perception, but on what he calls “intuitive mysticism.”

“In intuitive mysticism of yoga, we try to understand how a yogi gets knowledge of subtle matter, infinite matter, supra matter with such ease as though this knowledge was at his fingertips.” Classifieds

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What Prashant demonstrates in A Manual on Humanics is that far from being opposed to the theoretical pursuit of knowledge, the practice of yoga is itself a pursuit of knowledge, not the empirical knowledge of the external world, but the truth-bearing knowledge that destroys suffering and brings us closer to God.

Gary Jaeger is an Intermediate Junior III instructor living in Nashville, TN. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and teaches both eastern and western

philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

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